Tremendous Bowl champ Doug Collie shares message about daughter’s tragic airshow loss of life

Former NFL offensive lineman Bruce Collie and his household are being lifted up by these closest to them. 

The 2-time Tremendous Bowl champion misplaced his eldest daughter, Devyn Reiley, on Saturday after her airplane, as a part of the AirVenture Oshkosh airshow, crashed into Lake Winnebago minutes after takeoff. 

Collie posted Monday on Facebook a message he obtained from a pal who mentioned Devyn was “at all times skilled, arduous working, respectful and with such a lovely smile.” 

“From our Good friend Amalia Molly Forina. Thanks Molly…” Collie wrote.

Forina recalled assembly the household when Collie’s spouse, Holly, was pregnant with the couple’s twelfth baby and Devyn, the oldest of 13, labored behind the bar together with her dad. 

“I bear in mind when Devyn authored her first e book, so younger and so achieved,” Forina continued. 

“With this household, you can not assist however have fun and share their satisfaction and pleasure in all their milestones and accomplishments, and now, their heartbreak and loss.” 

Reiley, 30, grew to become a licensed pilot in 2017 and was flying a World Conflict II-era T-6 Texan together with her co-pilot Zach Colliemoreno, 20, when the accident occurred. 

“She was the older sister that was the one, everyone seemed as much as her,” Devyn’s youthful sister Calyn Collie told the San Antonio Express. “Her love of aviation was at all times so evident from a younger age.”

The classic plane reportedly reached 3,900 ft earlier than plunging into the lake. 

The U.S. Coast Guard recovered each the pilots’ our bodies Saturday night after starting its search that afternoon. 

An investigation is underway to find out the reason for the crash. 

“As a mother or father, I can not think about the unfathomable loss of a kid, as a Christian, I do know she is in God’s arms; and I do know the Collies have a really sturdy religion,” Forina wrote.

“Please pray for the Collie and Reiley households, for Hunter and Devyn’s aviator neighborhood.  Relaxation in peace lovely lady.” 

Collie was drafted by San Francisco in 1985 and gained Tremendous Bowls with the crew in 1989 and 1990 earlier than retiring following the 1991 season.